Virus Vulnerability

[Ugo Bellavance]

Karl Bailey wrote:
> Been looking at a site:
>
> www.testvirus.org
>
>
> Which will fire a number of tests at a mail account. Among these are:
>
>
> Test #21: Eicar virus within zip file hidden using the "Long MIME
>
> Boundary Vulnerability"
>
> And
>
> Test #23: Eicar virus within zip file hidden using the "Empty MIME
>
> Boundary Vulnerability"
>
>
> Both of these tests seemed to get through the MailScanner system I am
>
> running, one of which got picked up by the mcaffee groupshield solution
>
> on an exchange server (number 23). The other (21) wasn't picked up by
>
> anything & made it to the mail client...
>
>
> Is this a problem with my config (which I suspect), or is this actually
>
> a problem & if so can the hole be plugged?
>
>
> I'm running latest version of Mailscanner, kaspersky AVP, Mcaffee uvscan
>
> & f-prot.

Hi Karl,

I suggest you search the archives for testvirus or testvirus.org, since
this has been discussed many times in the past.  Don't forget that
testvirus.org is owned by a company who sells mail security products.

>
>
> Regards
>
> Karl Bailey
>
> Systems Administrator
>
>

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